Designing a Chronic Illness Self-Management Workshop: Project Report

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ASSIGNMENT 4
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
This project report elaborates about the chronic illness management workshop in which the
discussion and awareness programs will be organized with regard to how to deal with chronic
diseases.
Chronic diseases are the diseases which persist for a longer time period. U.S. National Center for
Health solutions defined chronic disease as the disease that lasts for three months or more. The
prevention of such disease is not possible by vaccines or its medication is not possible, nor do
they disappear. With the passage of age, these diseases become more common. It includes
arthritis, heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, diabetes, colon cancer, obesity, oral health
problems, etc. At least one chronic health conditions occur at the age of 65 in 88% or Americans.
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The workshop will focus on chronic illness self-management education programs. Chronic
diseases have become the most common problem at present and are being faced by many people.
It includes some diseases like heart attack, cancer, asthma, diabetes which are a very common
chronic disease. Somewhere the reasons behind these diseases are frustration, stress, the lifestyle
of people. Frustration refers to the emotion or the feeling of being less confidence or annoying
because the people cannot achieve what they want to or expect in return of the action and efforts
which are applied by them. Chronic disease self-management refers to enhancing the health
behavior which can be adopted by the person with chronic illness. These programs are designed
either for improving the current behaviors or for teaching new behavior (Schulman‐Green.et.al,
2012).
Goals of the workshop –
 The main goal of the workshop is to provide ideas and insights which will help the people
in enhancing their knowledge about chronic diseases.
 To provide patients and other people with the information and techniques and teaching
skills for improving the self-care and interaction of doctor and patients with the main
motive of improving their living style
 To make people learn about some tips which will help them in coping with frustrated
feeling and creations of options to relieve them
 To give understanding to the people with regard to the importance of self-management of
chronic diseases (Novak.et.al, 2013)
Description of planned activities-
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The workshop will cover the following topics-
 Overview of chronic disease management
 How to deal with the frustration and isolation
 Maintenance of fitness routine and the appropriate exercise for improving and
maintaining the strength, endurance, and flexibility.
 The diet plan for different chronic disease
 Motivating people to communicate about their disease and any other problems with the
family, and friends and try to be more communicative
 Appropriate use of medication
 Empowerment and support
 Patient’s engagement, communication, and self-care management (Lorig.et.al, 2014)
In the workshop, the discussion will be made with the people and they will be asked about the
following points-
 How do they see frustration?
 Things that frustrate them, If they can recognize those things
 To share their thoughts and ideas
 If you find frustration as energy-draining and if yes, how the transition of people is
affected by this
 Why the frustrating problem is more energy consuming than normal tasks
 Some of the frustrating situations will be considered. What strategy people follow if they
walk away from the place or anything else (Grady, & Gough, 2014)
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The individuals will have to get themselves registered for the workshop and program’s other
aspects can be tailored. After the workshop self-assessment activity will be organized, after
which the online learning, discussion forum, and follow up will be made. The program will run
for 12 months after registration for the workshop.
In self-assessment, an online survey will be conducted which will help in identifying the current
knowledge and the areas where improvements are required. Suggested online learning suite will
be organized at the time and pace of registered people. Discussion forum addressing the issues of
chronical diseases covering the thoughts and ideas of the people and providing them with the
suggestions, proper counseling will be done with them (Rosland.et.al, 2012).
The description will be made to the participants with respect to the concept of patient self-
management and how the health outcomes are improved by this. A systematic evidence approach
will be implemented with respect to care coordination, care planning. Health care professionals
will be invited to the program and their self-management activities for the chronic illness will
prove successful for the participants of the program. Self-management program will assist the
people in finding the strategies in a safe atmosphere with health professional assistance. The
programs will be run in order to make people with chronic disease to share their experiences and
learn from one another and they can even make new friends.
The workshop will provide suggestions to the people so as to motivate them to resolve the issue
of frustration. People will be advised to use breathing, medication, or practicing yoga for lifting
out of the situation to get perspective for a moment. A management plan must be made in
consultation with the doctor. The doctors and the health professionals will give any advice and
suggestions to the chronic disease participants which will prove very beneficial for them if they
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will follow them rigorously. For chronic disease patients, it is very important that they follow the
diet and nutrition chart. A proper diet plan is like a boon for the patients as the body responds as
per the diet was given to it (Riegel.et.al, 2012).
Barriers –
The group of individuals might not be able to attend the programs as there can be barriers due to
which they may not attend it. It includes lack of confidence to manage the programs of the
workshop, lack of personality development, conflicts issues, lack of coordination, motivation.
All these issues should be handled very carefully otherwise, the workshop program will not get a
good result.
Delivery of workshop
No. of participants- There will be a total of 20 individuals and three families who will attend the
workshop program of chronic illness self-management education, five health care professionals.
Timeframe- it will be one day workshop in which the whole programs will take place. But
after this workshop self-assessment activity will also be organized which will help the
participants in analyzing themselves. Each topic will be discussed for one hour and at the end of
the workshop feedback form will get to be filled by the participants so that the success or the
failure of the workshop can be evaluated. The feedback will serve as a base for the next
workshop.
Resources needed for providing the program- For organizing the workshop, the rental hall
will be booked and different equipment will be used in this by doctors and the health
professionals.
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Resources needed to participate in the program- for the participation in the program, it is
important to have access to a computer, access to transit. This will make the program more
effective for the participants as they will be better able to attend the workshop. They can write
the important things needed by them which are important for them. They can search for chronic
illness management issues and other related topics at the programs.
Data required for evaluation-
For evaluating the data, the logical and analytical reasoning will be made for examining each
component of data. And the analysis will be made to form some sort of findings and conclusions.
The method which will be used for collecting the data for the chronic illness self-management
education program is a secondary data collection method. Through this method, effective
research can be conducted with respect to chronic diseases. Secondary data is the method in
which the data collected has been gathered previously and its accessing is possible by the
researchers. The secondary data on chronic disease management is that much of the preliminary
work has been done on it. The data have already been sorted in the format called electronic
format, reviewed and published with the case studies that have already been conducted. It is
more legitimate than primary data and can be used often for verification of primary data. It
includes literature reviews, articles, journals, libraries, and the internet. For organizing the good
workshop program the data will be collected from the various journals, articles, internet, and
books of authors giving information about the chronic diseases, health professionals, and the data
related to the percentage of the issues the country is facing due to the chronic illness (Rouse,
2019).
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The secondary method is best for this project as it is economical and efforts and expenses will be
saved by the adoption of this method. The data can be compared; the problems can be
understood in detail. The availability, relevancy, sufficiency, and accuracy of data will be
evaluated so that there does not remain any type of inefficiency in the workshop programs.
Conclusion
The project report is all about the workshop program in relation to the chronic illness self-
management education program. This program covers many topics which will be discussed in
the workshop program and the timeframe, a number of participants, resources required for the
conducting it are mentioned and the detailed activity planning is mentioned.
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References
 Grady, P. A., & Gough, L. L. (2014). Self-management: a comprehensive approach to
management of chronic conditions. American Journal of Public Health, 104(8), e25-e31.
 Lorig, K., Ritter, P. L., Pifer, C., & Werner, P. (2014). Effectiveness of the chronic
disease self-management program for persons with a serious mental illness: a translation
study. Community mental health journal, 50(1), 96-103.
 Novak, M., Costantini, L., Schneider, S., & Beanlands, H. (2013, March). Approaches to
self‐management in chronic illness. In Seminars in dialysis (Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 188-194).
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
 Riegel, B., Jaarsma, T., & Strömberg, A. (2012). A middle-range theory of self-care of
chronic illness. Advances in Nursing Science, 35(3), 194-204.
 Rosland, A. M., Heisler, M., & Piette, J. D. (2012). The impact of family behaviors and
communication patterns on chronic illness outcomes: a systematic review. Journal of
behavioral medicine, 35(2), 221-239.
 Rouse. M., (2019). Secondary data. [Online]. Tech target. Available at:
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/secondary-data. [Accessed on 28 March 2019]
 Schulman‐Green, D., Jaser, S., Martin, F., Alonzo, A., Grey, M., McCorkle, R., ... &
Whittemore, R. (2012). Processes of self‐management in chronic illness. Journal of
Nursing Scholarship, 44(2), 136-144.
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